TO DIE LIKE JENKINS’ HEN, verb. phr. (Scots’).—To die unmarried.

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  1805.  A. SCOTT, Poems, ‘The Old Maid’, p. 87.

        I ance had sweethearts nine or ten,
And dearly dawted wi’ the men;
The like again I’ll never ken,
        Till life I quat it;
But oh! the DEATH OF JENKINS’ HEN,
        I shudder at it.

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